There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIs it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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